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  • I Let AI Sort My Game Cam Cards — Here’s What It Found
    June 9, 2026 · Rob Roy I have a problem that every trail camera owner knows. Pull the cards, slot them into the Mac, open the folder — and stare down 500 images of wind-blown grass, shadows, and the occasional deer backside. Sorting them manually takes an hour. Most of that hour is deleting blanks. … Read more
  • Building a Private On-Device AI Companion: What I Learned
    The starting question Rob Roy · robroy.online · April 2026 A few weeks ago I asked a simple question: could I take a small language model and teach it about one specific domain? That question led me through a full modern AI engineering stack — retrieval-augmented generation, embedding models, on-device inference, Core ML conversion, Apple … Read more
  • Netsolver: What 37 Years of DevOps Taught Me to Build
    After nearly four decades in systems administration and DevOps — including stints at IBM and Disney — I’ve managed a lot of infrastructure. Racks of servers, sprawling networks, machines spread across time zones. The tools we used were powerful, expensive, and designed for teams. Then I left enterprise. Now I run a home lab with … Read more
  • Xcode Debugging hint
    A lightweight, zero-cost debugging utility for Swift projects that automatically strips debug statements from release builds. ## Overview The `DebugHelpers.swift` file provides debug logging macros that are completely removed during release builds, ensuring zero performance impact in production. ## Features – **Zero runtime cost in release builds** – All debug code is stripped at compile … Read more
  • Introducing Flying Moose Alchemy
    I’ve been building websites for over two decades — starting with hand-coded HTML long before WordPress existed, and growing with the web ever since. Alongside my app development work, I take on web design projects for small businesses that need a real web presence without a big agency price tag. Why I Do This Same … Read more